Sunday January 24 2010
Well the Silver Seas were in the studio at Lij’s Toybox the last few days. We were recording an “acoustic” version of Chateau Revenge that will be released on Vinyl only. Man. In some ways I think it’s better than the other one. Gosh I don’t know. Sometimes I like things because they are new. Been working on some country songs too. One with Kate York, one with Nathan Barlowe, Tami Hinesh, who else? Mindy Smith. I think today we will go over to Germantown to get Coffee and Croissants for breakfast, after we walk the pup. I wonder if there’s any Football on today. I would really like to go on tour with the S.S. We just have to figure out how we can make it make sense financially, i.e. afford it. SO. Been reading these funny articles about John Mayer, I like him. He’s kind of a philosopher in a way. Cocky. Not self-effacing, but at least funny. But sometimes when I’m reading Rolling Stone (which L. got me) I get kind of jealous how they always write about the same people every month (Lady Gaga, Jonas Brothers, Taylor Swift, Kings of Leon, Spoon, Owl City, Ke$ha, Lil Wayne, MGMT, I don’t know. It just seems like they always write about them. They all get articles every month and I’ve never been in there ONCE. I don’t know. I know jealousy is unbecoming. It’s just that every time Lady Gaga gets an ice cream it’s in there. I do think she’s kind of fabulous though. I love the avant garde-ness of it, I guess, you know, it’s sort of like the Studio 54 days of ’be as “freaky” as possible and you will be a star.’ I heard Fleet Foxes on the radio the other day. Very excellent. Also The Grizzly Bears. L. plays them all the time. I like them. Well I’ve been sort of winding each evening down with a couple of cocktails and it probably wouldn’t hurt to take a break. I dreamed I was listening to records with Jay Joyce last night. Bee Gees. Mad Men, why is Don Draper so fascinating to watch? Why do I hate Pete Campbell? Also Peggy kind of annoys me too. I think one of the major strengths of Mad Men is that the characters are so like real-life: multi dimensional and complex. Hard to understand. Well here’s the Mindy Smith demo.
UNBELIEVABLE MINDY SMITH DEMO…gorgeous. congratulations!
Comment by Missy — January 24, 2010 @ 9:28 am
The Fleet Foxes are great.
Have you heard Kid Harpoon “once”. Great job too.
Wish you can have all this vinyl stuff available for Spain.
Are you finally going to release “Nothing to hide” as a B-side somewhere?
Comment by JL — January 26, 2010 @ 5:01 am
I don’t know. I guess you could say it’s luck. I mean, reading, “Anthology” I got the impression if it weren’t for Brian Epstein we’d never heard of the Beatles. And I know Keith Richards has said that if it weren’t for the Beatles nobody’d ever heard of the Stones. Look at Bob Dylan. From that Scorcese movie it certainly didn’t seem like he was looking for fame or cared about it. Famed found him. Seem like its a mixture of single mindedness of purpose + not caring about the result, kind of like what the BHAGAVAD GITA and Deepak Chopra say, being in love with the process so much, you’re not attached to the end result.
Comment by Stephen Pickering — January 29, 2010 @ 11:12 am
I have to say I think John Mayer is truly diabolical since yesterday. I’ve thought his music was banal for years but his comments in Playboy are just awful, he needs to disappear.
Comment by Emily Walters — February 11, 2010 @ 12:46 pm